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  Title

  Why humans like to cry : tragedy, evolution and the brain

  Author

  Trimble, Michael R.  

  Publisher:

  Oxford University Press,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  viii, 232 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780199693184

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    BF575 .C88 T75 2012	1	Book	New Book Display

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  ISBN:

  9780199693184 (hbk.)

  ISBN:

  0199693188 (hbk.)

  Personal Author:

  Trimble, Michael R.

  Title:

  Why humans like to cry : tragedy, evolution and the brain / Michael Trimble.

  Publication info:

  Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

  Physical description:

  viii, 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

  Contents:

  Introduction -- Crying -- The neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of crying -- Evolution -- Tragedy and tears -- Tearful logic -- Why do we get pleasure from crying at the theatre? -- Appendices: Neuroanatomy -- Glossary of terms

  Summary:

  Humans are unique in shedding tears of sorrow. We do not just cry over our own problems: we seek out sad stories, go to film and the theatre to see Tragedies, and weep in response to music. What led humans to develop such a powerful social signal as tears, and to cultivate great forms of art which have the capacity to arouse us emotionally? Friedrich Nietzsche argued that Dionysian drives and music were essential to the development of Tragedy. Here, the neuropsychiatrist Michael Trimble, using insights from modern neuroscience and evolutionary biology, attempts to understand this fascinating and unique aspect of human nature--Book jacket.

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  Subject term:

  Crying.

  Subject term:

  Crying--Physiological aspects.

  Subject term:

  Tragedy.

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